Weighing meter



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WEIGHING METER Filed Jan. 7, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet l FIG.| f T f" N V EN TOR.

John Lindsrrom Y ATTORNEY y 1953 J. LINDSTROM 2,638,865

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John Li-ndstrom AT TOR NEY Patented May 19, 1953 WEIGHIN G METER John Lindstrom, Montclair, N. J as'signor to The Viking Tool & Machine Corporation,

Belleville,

N. J a corporation of New Jersey Application January 7, 1950, Serial No. 137,449

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to weighing meters and particularly to meters for indicating the fluid contents of containers such as bottles partially filled with liquor,

The object of the invention is to provide a weighing meter which will be simple and inexpensive in manufacture and rugged and accurate in service.

Further objects of the invention, particularly in the combination of scales and actuating parts providing for convenient manipulation of the movable parts and clear visibility of the scales, will appear from the following specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is an elevational face view of the meter,

Fig. 2 is a plan view with parts broken away,

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view in the plane of the needle axis, and

Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In the meter shown, the casing 5 holds the scale mechanism and has on its front an outer annulus 6 marked with outer scale gradations I and housing the glass disk 8. An inner rotatable scale disk 9 turns on the axis of the needle shaft I5 and carries the gradations of inner scale I I. Attached to disk 9 at the zero mark of scale II is a finger piece or pointer I extending outward and curved over to register at its tip with scale 'I so that the inner scale I I may be moved to bring its zero mark into register with the gradations of outer scale I.

The needle I4 of the meter is actuated by the total weight of a bottle placed on platform I6, cover I8 having been opened, and this movement of needle I4 from the zero of scale I corresponds in displacement to the weight of the bottle, tare, plus the weight of the liquid content. If then annulus 9 with scale I I is moved to bring the zero of scale I I to register with that mark of fixed scale I corresponding to the bottle tare, this tare will be automatically deducted from the reading of the needle on the inner scale I I.

For instance, the scale settings as shown (Fig. l) are for a bottle tare of 10 ounces so that the needle will read the liquid content in fluid ounces on scale II, when the bottle is set on the meter platform I6. It is only necessary to set each bottle in turn on the platform, correspondingly set the tare by pointer II) on scale I and then read off the liquid content on scale II.

The meter is neat in appearance, convenient in handling and the operating mechanism is completely housed and ruggedly supported. The needle shaft I is journaled in fixed bracket 20 and carries pinion 2| actuated by rack 22 guided V81" tically in bracket 20 and pivotally connected at 23 to the vertical beam 24 linked by pivots 25, 26 to the forward ends of arms 21, 28 pivoted at 29, 30 in fixed brackets 3|, 32 and supported at 33 by spring 38 suspended from rod 34 screw threaded in adjusting screw 35 swiveled in arm 36 of fixed bracket 31.

The meter platform I6 is supported from the beam member 24 by post 40 fastened to the platform at 4| and having its conical lower end 42 set in a recess in plate 43 of the bracket arm 44 carried by the member 24.

The platform I6 and the rack 22 are constrained to substantially vertical movements, the pinion 2I having tooth connection with the teeth of the rack permitting slight horizontal movement of the rack due to the arcuate movement of the supporting pivots 25, 26. The indicator needle I4 may be accurately set to the zero of the outer scale I by adjustment of the threaded screw 35 correspondingly regulating the position of the needle.

This apparatus lends itself to very rapid operation in measuring, for instance, the liquid contents of rpartly empty bottles in a bar or the like. Usually the weight of the empty bottle and closure, tare, is known or appears on the bottle label. With one hand, the operator places the bottle on the platform I6 while with the other hand he adjusts the pointer ID to this tare on the scale I. Then as the weight of the bottle is released, the needle moves to the fluid content of the bottle and this is read off, the operation being rapidly repeated to give a closely accurate inventory of the amounts of liquid in the opened bottles.

While the invention has been described in connection with a specific embodiment thereof, it is not intended to be confined thereto but covers such modifications thereof as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A weighing meter for liquids in a container comprising a casing enclosing a weighing mechanism and having a front vertical panel with a central opening, a bearing having an intermediate portion and reduced end portions, one of said end portions fitted intosaid front panel and having 2. turned edge to clamp said intermediate portion against said panel and securely fasten the bearing to the panel, an outer disc-shaped panel mounted on the other reduced end of said bearing and spaced from said front panel by said intermediate portion, said disc-shaped panel being rigidly secured to the bearing by a turned edge pressing said panel against said interme" diate portion, a disc-shaped dial with a peripheral scale rotatably mounted on said intermediate portion between said outer :panel and the front panel, a shaft journaled in said bearing and extending from in front of said outer panel to the rear of said front panel, means for turning said shaft on actuation of said weighing mechanism, a pointer attached to the outer end of said shaft and extending to said scale, an outer ring-shaped mounting having a cylindrical side extending outwardly from said front panel and an annular face with a stationary scale graduated to correspond with the tare of the container, said mounting being positioned concentric said discshaped panel and dial and having a slot the cylindrical side, a pointer attached tosaid discshaped dial and extending through said slot in said ring mounting and bent around with a pointer portion adjacent to said scale on said mounting, said pointer adjusting said scale on said mounting for the tare of the container.

JOHN LINDSTROM.

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